I’m half-way through buying all of my parts.

Pretend that my selected graphics card is the Lisuan G100. Because fuck AMD and NVIDIA.

My usecases are playing around with DaVinci Resolve and GIMP, small-time Godot game dev’ing, playing indie games, self-hosting (e.g. a Jellyfin instance for my movie/tv show for my LAN streaming needs) and just general browsing lol. I don’t intend to overclock, so 600-650W seems fairly plenty.

I had previously struggled with H.265 video formats, my previous setup with the i5 4670k and NVIDIA 750ti were barely keeping up with anything new, never mind newer standards (somehow runs Ghostrunner 2 @ 1080p 40fps in most terrains!). They held their weight pretty nicely over the years though.

  • d-RLY?@lemmy.ml
    3·
    9 days ago

    Specs:

    • Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus WiFi
    • AMD Ryzen 5950X
    • 64GB of G.Skill F4-3600C18-32GVK
    • Gigabyte AMD RX-7900XTX
    • Samsung 980 Pro 500GB (OS drive)
    • Samsung 990 Pro 4TB (Game Drive)
    • Samsung 870 EVO (one 2TB and one 4TB for main non-game storage)
    • WD Black 1TB HDD (mostly used for books, comics, file history for my user profile, and misc storage)
    • LG M-Disc Ultra-HD/4k internal burner/reader with hacked firmware to use with MakeMKV.
    • Seasonic 850W 80+ Platinum
    • Noctua NH-D15 Gen 2 (had a NH-U12S) and 5 140mm case fans from them (can’t remember which models but one is the newer version).
    • Fractal Define R4 (main reason I have air cooling instead of an AIO as the 5.24in bays and older style from a 2013 build I bought from a different friend in 2015 that wanted to downsize to do two years of Van-Life).
    • Windows 10 Pro (will likely move to a Linux distro after I have a new build and use this one as a dedicated Plex/Jellyfin/long-term data storage).

    Built piecemeal over the past 6ish years (original CPU: Ryzen 3800X as a bundle with the board and GPUs first RX-580 8GB then RX-5700XT also 8GB, drives changed out also over time along with the RAM). So the cost of all the parts has been spread out. I got the RX-7900XTX for $800 off a friend that was down-sizing on things which was too good to pass-up as the price was still $1000~1100 at the time (2023 within the first year).

    Usecase: Mostly games, general daily tasks and browsing, also as my Plex server and more recently ripping/re-encoding my Blu-rays and DVDs.

    I plan to build a more straightforward PC for games and daily tasks. I don’t have the parts selected yet for it, but plan to stay all AMD. Also plan to run a Linux distro from the start with that one since Proton has worked so well on my Steam Deck (along with Windows 11 being so much more invasive than even 10). Might still need to setup a VM with Windows for really specific situations and to keep-up with how things work and trying out things that might help in fixing PCs I work on for my job.

    I have heard that doing hardware pass-through on VMs is maybe easier if the host is Linux to be able to actually use my GPU in the client OS. So I am looking forward to seeing how that might work (I don’t use VMs much since I haven’t had proper GPU support which annoys me lol). —

    • uberstar@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      8 days ago

      recently ripping/re-encoding my Blu-rays and DVDs.

      Respect, I hope to see them seeded 🏴‍☠️, if you catch my drift